The Talleyrand Maxim vs Where Are the Wise: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Talleyrand Maxim The Talleyrand Maxim Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 ★★★★☆ 3.9 195 pages · ≈ 3 h 37 m · Challenging
“Linford Pratt, senior clerk to Eldrick & Pascoe, solicitors, of Barford, a young man who earnestly desired to get on in life, by hook or by crook, with no objection whatever to crookedness, so long as it could be performed in safety and secrecy, had once during one of his periodical visit to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand, which”
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The “Talleyrand Maxim” holds that “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” The adage has the character of guidance for life for an ambitious legal clerk, Linford Pratt. Unlike most people, he…

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